Device for hanging wall-paper.



No. 877,025. PATENTED JAN. 21, 1908.

- D. WEBSTER. DBVIGE FOR HANGING WALL PAPER.

APPLICATION FILED 11133.25. 1907.

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(PATENTED JAN. 21, 1908.

D. WEBSTER. DEVIGBFOR HANGING WALL PAPER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1907.

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DANIEL WEBSTER, OF BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.

DEVICE FOR HANGING- WALL-PAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21 1908.

Application filed March 25- 1907- erial No. 36%39'7. I

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL WEBSTER, citizen of the United States, residing at Baton Rouge, in the parish of East Baton Rouge and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Hanging Wall-Paper, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to devices for hanging wall paper; and it contemplates the provision of a simple and easily manipulated device through the medium of which paper may be expeditiously and effectually affixed to the walls and ceiling of an apartment without the employment of scaffolding.

With the foregoing in mind, the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the. same are read in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which: a

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my novel papenhanging device, complete. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of the upper portion of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail, enlarged, cross-section taken through the paper-applying body and paper-holding bail of the device. Fig. 4 is a detail enlarged elevation illustrating the connection of one of the arms of the bail to the paper-applying body, and one of the springs for normally pressing the forward portion of the bail against the head. Fig. 5 is a detail horizontal section taken through the handle or stick of the device in a plane above the wall-paper guide thereon. Fig. 6 is a perspective view illustrative of a device which I prefer to employ for rolling paper against a wall or ceiling subsequent to the hanging of the paper through the medium of the first mentioned device.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, and more particularly to Figs. 1 to 5 thereof:

'Ais the handle of my novel paper-hanging or affixing device. The said handle is preferably of wood and sufficiently long to enable a workman to conveniently position the paper-applying body, presently described,

against the ceiling of an apartment, and it is preferably, though not necessarily, threaded at its upper end for the engagement of a threaded socket on a T-head B through the medium of which the handle is fixedly connected with the paper-applying body. C is the said paper-applying body, the upper and forward sides of which are disposed at right angles to each other so as to admit of the snug arrangement of the body infithe corner between a wall and the ceiling of an apartment. The said body C is preferably made of wood or other light material, and is covered with felt or analogous material, as indicated by D and best shown in Fig. 3, with a view of effectually preventing the body from scratching or otherwise marring wall paper incident to the application of the latter to a wall or ceiling. In the preferred embodiment of my invention metallic plates E are affixed to the ends of the body C for the sake of strength and durability, and the ends of the T-head B are fixedly connected to the said plates.

F is the paper-holding hail of the device. This bail is provided on its horizontal portion a with a covering 1) of felt or equivalent material designed to prevent it from injuring the wall paper and it is also provided at the ends of the said horizontal portion a, with downwardly, forwardly and upwardly extending arms 0 having lateral, inwardly extending terminals d, which latter are positioned in the angular recess 6 of the body C. Any suitable means for normally pressing the horizontal portion a of the bail F in a yielding manner against the rear side of the paper-applying body C may be employed without involving departure from the scope of my invention as defined in the claims appended. I prefer, however, to employ for the purpose coiled springs f which surround the terminals (1 and are connected at one end to the body C and at their other ends to the arms 0 of the bail. The terminals d of the bail are journaled in suitable bearings g in the back recess of body C, and hence it will be apparent that the springs f arranged as stated are adapted to normally hold the bail portion a in and return the same to a position in rear of the rear side of the body 0, and this without interfering with the said portion a. of the bail being drawn downward in the manner presently described.

G is a cable, preferably a piece of cord, connected to and depending from the bail F. This cable has for its office to enable the user of the device to conveniently draw the horizontal portion a of the bail F downward when the body C is held in a raised position, as against the ceiling of an apartment, to release the upper end of a piece of wall paper held between the said forward portion a of the bail and the forward side of the body 0.

H is a paper guide carried by the handle A A and terminating in a disk This disk together with disks 1:: disposed at opposite sides of the same is interposed between thearms of a clip 1 which is fixed on the handle A by a screw m which extends through the arms of the clip and the disks and 7r and is designed to serve the two-fold function of fixing the clip on the handle A and adjustably fixing the guide H with respect to the said handle A.

In the use of my device to hang a piece of wall paper on one of the walls of an apartment or on the ceiling thereof, the paper is passed upward through the loop h of the guide H, then forward between the T-head B and body C, then over the upper side of the body G and down at the rear side thereof, and the end of the piece of paper is clamped between the horizontal portion a of the bail F and the said rear side of the body. I Vith the paper thus arranged relative to the device, it will be seen that the user of the device may while standing on the floor of an apartment conveniently apply the paper in proper position to a wall or the ceiling of the apartment, and then subsequent to the application of the end portion of the piece of paper, the bail F may be conveniently disengaged from said end portion by a downward pull on the-cable G, and then the body C of the device may be used to advantage in applying the remainder of the paper to the wall or ceiling. Incident to the application of the paper to a wall or ceiling in the manner stated, it will be seen that the depending stretch of the paper will pass upward through the loop 72/ of the guide II, and hence will not interfere with the manipulation of the body C or the movements of the party using my noveldevice. This is due to the fact that the loop h of guide H is disposed in rear of and in about the same horizontal plane as the body C. p

In Fig. 6 of the drawings I have shown a device equipped with a roller 0, and designed to roll paper against the walls and ceiling of an apartment subsequent to the before described applicationof the paper through the medium of the device illustrated in Figs.

The said roller C of the supplementary device is preferably covered with felt or equivalent material and is carried by a T-head B which in turn is adjustably con nected with a handle A so that'the roller may be fixed at various angles to suit different conditions. In addition to the elements named, the supplementary device of Fig. 6 is provided with a bail F which is pivoted to and extends forward from the arms of the T-head B and is designed by hearing against the paper to hold the same adjacent to the wall to which it is to be affixed.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that through the medium of my novel device and the supplementary roller device, wall paper may be expeditiously hung in a finished manner with the expenditure of but a minimum amount of effort and without the employment of scaffolding or the like which is objectionable because of the dirt which its use leaves in an apartment.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, 1s:

1. A device for hanging wall paper, comprising a handle, aT-head fixed on the upper end of the handle, a paper-a plying body fixed to the ends of the T-hea means con nected with said body for yieldingly holding a piece of wall paper to the same, and a guide having a shank connected to the handle and also having a loop disposed in rear of and in about the same horizontal plane as the paper-applying body.

2. A device for hanging wall paper, comprising a handle, aT-head fixed on the upper end of the handle, a paper-applying body fixed to the ends of theT-head and having an upper flat side and a forward flat side disposed at right' angles to each other, a bail having a horizontal ortion normally resting in rear of the rear side of the body and also having forwardly extending arms and lateral inwardly-extending terminals thereon disposed adjacent to the front side of the body, and springs coiled about said terminals and connected at one end to the body and at their opposite ends to the arms of the bail.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- HGSSGS.

DANIEL WEBSTER. Witnesses:

RAYMOND JEANMARIE, Lno. W. WEBSTER, 

